Memory Movies

Mel Schwartz escaped the Great Depression on a bicycle adventure he'd remember for the rest of his life... until Mel lost his memory to Alzheimer's....

Long ago, Geamăna was a Romanian village in the Apuseni Mountains, home to about 1000 people. Today, only the church spire rises from the...

In the countryside, a man lives isolated from the world. More than 200 years ago, a couple puts their naïve love for each other above anything...

Comfortable in the routine of his 9-5 job, a postcard triggers office worker Ben to confront a memory from his youth. This leads him on a path of...

A hand-painted stop-motion elegy that traces the erasure of a family home by eminent domain, accompanied by a soundscape drawn from archival family...

Engaging themes of love and betrayal, hope, belonging and place, Glad You’re Here documents my nineteen--year journey through...

Standing before a decaying state hospital in the Aegean coastal town of Foça, "The Department of Ownerless Places" investigates the...

A boy revisits his past after taking a bottle of pills in an act of suicide

The story of a young Kurdish man who tries to remember his past traumatic experiences. A young migrant struggles to remember the memories of...

A professional novelist struggles to resolve an increasingly burdensome family situation, and his relationship with his partner, all the while...

An experimental short film shot on Soviet Sveta 8mm film stock expired in 1984. It documents the 25th birthday of the filmmaker.

An animated short film that shows the relationship between a girl, her grandfather, and a little bird. A series of everyday events, ranging from...

An old man searches for happiness in old photos.

Triggered by a familiar face, an elderly man with Alzheimer’s journeys through the vivid, golden memories of his teenage love — the one...

A musical audiovisual journey in four parts. A young man finds himself unexpectedly taking an audiovisual odyssey into a world of surreality, slowly...

A moving personal documentary about Danny, a friend of Kybartas who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1986. This powerful work explores the reason...